Re: volta repeat with and without alternative ending

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Chris,

I feel that multiple ending repeats are part of the ***structure*** of the piece, so is it worth bothering to have parts with differents structures?

As an amateur musician, I’ve seen so much time lost in reheasals just to count bars when the numbers are missing, either forwards or backwards...

JM

Le 25 juin 2015 à 10:54, Chris Yate <address@hidden> a écrit :

On 25 June 2015 at 09:47, Flaming Hakama by Elaine <address@hidden> wrote:

> Conductor will say bar number.
Nope. From my experience I would say she says everytime something different:
- from 3 measures before rehearsal mark B
- from the lyric measure
- second repeat, please
- proabaly from a specific bar number
Regards
Helge

Your imaginary "rule" that says that multiple endings must contain different content is what is silly, and in the end, causes confusion and is therefore very inconsiderate.

Yes, I completely agree, but I don't much like the tone of this thread. Never mind whether it's a Good Idea, have we covered the question of *how* to do it? 

There are situations where you might well want one part to be repeated in volta and not another. Perhaps a very long repeat where one part has markedly different material to the rest of the ensemble. 

The resulting confusion can be mitigated by things like doubling up the bar numbering or even the rehearsal marks.

Chris


P.S. I often see "Percent" repeats misused where the notes may be the same between two bars but the *musical* content is different. That's confusing in the same way.

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